Home economics class, Whittier Junior High School

Six girls are in a classroom with stoves and counters preparing food in this 9-1/2" x 7-3/4" black and white photograph. One girl is stirring something in a pot on the stove, while another puts a piece of meat into the oven. The other girls are peeling and chopping fruits and vegetables at a counter. The girls are all wearing either dresses or skirts and blouses, and each one is wearing an apron.

Whittier Junior High School was located at 22nd and Vine Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska. The building was built in 1923 and used until 1977 as a junior high school. It was then used as an alternative high school until 1980. Whittier School was named for the American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).